Hermann Bruhn (mechanical engineer)

Hermann Bruhn (born January 2, 1872 in Flensburg ; † July 24, 1943 there ) was a German manager and politician.

education

Hermann Bruhn, son of the businessman Friedrich Mommse Bruhn (1832–1909), attended the secondary school in Flensburg. He completed an apprenticeship as a mechanical engineer and went to sea as a machine assistant. From 1891 to 1892 he studied mechanical engineering at the TH Karlsruhe and from 1892 to 1896 at the TH Hannover . In Karlsruhe he became a member of the Karlsruhe fraternity of Teutonia in 1891/92 .

Working life

From 1862 to 1900 he worked as a production engineer for a factory in Lübeck . From 1900 to 1909 he was deputy director and technical manager in his father's company. This is the "United Flensburg-Ekensunder and Sonderburger Dampfschiffs-Gesellschaft" founded in 1866 and merged with a rival company in 1897, cf. History of the Flensburg Fjord . When his father died in 1909, Bruhn took over as director of the company, which had to be liquidated in 1934.

Memberships

From 1911 to 1935 Bruhn was the city councilor of Flensburg for the united bourgeois front . From 1921 to 1933 mayor of the city council. From 1916 to 1932 was a member of the select committee of the supervisory board of Kraftwerke GmbH Flensburg and Gaswerk GmbH Flensburg . On January 31, 1921, he was elected a board member of the Association for Trade and Industry in Flensburg.

literature

• Bruhn, Hermann. In: Georg Wenzel: German business leader . Life courses of German business personalities. A reference book on 13,000 business figures of our time. Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg / Berlin / Leipzig 1929, DNB 948663294 , p. 327.
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 7: Supplement A – K. Winter, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8253-6050-4 , pp. 162-163.